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Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:22:18 +0200
From: Georgi Chorbadzhiyski <gf@...xsol.org>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix function definitions.

On 3/9/12 10:21 AM, Georgi Chorbadzhiyski wrote:
> On 3/9/12 10:14 AM, Georgi Chorbadzhiyski wrote:
>> Define several functions if _BSD_SOURCE is set. _XOPEN_SOURCE
>> should also be checked but I can't be bothered, because _BSD_SOURCE
>> works.
>>
>> Background for these patches:
>> http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox-landley.net/2012-March/000309.html
>>
>> Georgi Chorbadzhiyski (4):
>> include/stdlib.h: Define clearenv() if (_SVID_SOURCE || _BSD_SOURCE)
>> is set.
>> include/unistd.h: Define sethostname() if _BSD_SOURCE is set.
>> include/unistd.h: Define vfork() if _BSD_SOURCE is set.
>> include/sys/types.h: major(), minor() and makedev() should be defined
>> if _BSD_SOURCE is set.
>>
>> include/stdlib.h | 5 ++++-
>> include/sys/types.h | 5 ++++-
>> include/unistd.h | 10 ++++++++--
>> 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>
> Hmm...it seems this is not enough. See include/unistd.h
>
> #ifdef _GNU_SOURCE
> int brk(void *);
> void *sbrk(intptr_t);
> pid_t forkall(void);
> int vhangup(void);
> int getpagesize(void);
> int usleep(unsigned);
> unsigned ualarm(unsigned, unsigned);
> int setgroups(size_t, const gid_t []);
> int setresuid(uid_t, uid_t, uid_t);
> int setresgid(gid_t, gid_t, gid_t);
> char *get_current_dir_name(void);
> #endif
>
> Most of the above according to their man pages should be defined if
> _BSD_SOURCE is set.
>
> Should the headers be filled with feature checks (that would make them
> quite ugly) or assume we have _GNU_SOURCE defined and remove any _GNU_SOURCE
> checks?

...for functions that are not pure GNU extensions like strndupa.

-- 
Georgi Chorbadzhiyski
http://georgi.unixsol.org/

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